History as Ideology

The Nation Form: History and Ideology

The history of nations, beginning with our own, is always already presented to us in the form of a narrative which attributes to these entities the continuity of a subject. The formation of the nation thus appears as the fulfillment of a "project" stretching over centuries, in which there are different stages and moments of coming to self-awareness, which the prejudices of the various historian...

Information Ethics as Ideology

If we live indeed in the early stages of what has been termed the " information society, " then it is clear that ethical concerns with regards to information are of central importance. This can explain the growing interest in issues of information ethics. The use of the word " ethics " seems to suggest that there is something wrong or bad and that this can be addressed by morally acceptable mea...

Ideology and the History of Science

Antoine Destutt de Tracy, who coined the term "ideology," considered his new discipline a general science of our "intellectual faculties, their principal phenomena, and the more remarkable circumstances of their activities" (1801, p. 4). Convinced of the sensationalist epistemology of Locke and Condillac, Destutt de Tracy believed one could resolve all ideas into the sensations that produced th...

Ideology as Cultural Software

Ideology as Constraint